College Computer I'm going away to school next august, so I'm in the market for a new computer. I think I want a desktop (but I'm open to suggestions for reasonably priced notebooks), as the laptop I have right now is in pretty good condition: pentium 2.4 ghz, 512 MB RAM, ati radeon mobility 9000, 40 GB hard drive. My budget is $1,000, give or take a little. Below is my newegg wishlist, please tell me what you think. I want the most bang for my buck, so suggestions are more than welcome. -NEC 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE/ATAPI Model ND-3550A - OEM -Linkworld 431-08-C2628 Black & Silver Steel/Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 430W Power Supply - Retail -Western Digital Caviar SE WD1200JBRTL 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - Retail -POWERCOLOR 1900XT512MB Radeon X1900XT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail -CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT400 - Retail -AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 1GHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA3800BVBOX - Retail -Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $1,038.97
I take it that you're going to be using the system for gaming, for which I think your choice is pretty good. However the one thing that you're definately going to have to think about changing is the power supply. Speaking from experience its better off to get a quality unit from Antec, Thermaltake, Fortran, Sparkle, even PC Power and Cooling (expensive) as the case one can fail after a few months.
